About 2,000 bikes will participate in the 2015 Vietnam Motorbike Festival in Ho Chi Minh City next month, which will feature performances on Vietnam’s largest flat track.

A decade ago few people thought that tourism development in Laos and Cambodia would outpace Vietnam’s.

Customs officials in Tan Son Nhat Airport seized two ivory statues in a shipment of furniture parts sent to Ho Chi Minh City from France.

Recently a number of lesser-known, remote islands across Vietnam have emerged as attractive tourist destinations. Co To in the northeastern province of Quang Ninh is one of them.

Manchester City executives have wrapped up a three-day visit to Hanoi to arrange a friendly match the English club will play against Vietnam at the end of July.

The managements of state-owned enterprises that fail to privatize and divest from non-core businesses as ordered this year face "strict" action, a government committee on the restructuring of SOEs said at a recent meeting in Hanoi.

Given Hoi An's immense popularity, one should never have difficulties finding guidebooks which recommend them what to do in the ancient town. Cycling, riding a boat along the Hoai River, or simply having a cup of coffee at a street café, to name a few.

The Mekong Delta, Vietnam's biggest farming region, is losing 500 hectares (1,235 acres) of land to erosion every year as land accretion fails to make up for areas being washed away, new evidence suggested.  

Hanoi has surpassed Ho Chi Minh City to become Vietnam’s capital of expenses, as new statistics found its costs of living are up to 22% higher than other cities'.

Police in the southern province of Binh Duong on June 25 arrested a man who allegedly hid eight kilograms of methamphetamine inside his car's trunk.